Job Jenkins (1655 - 1687)

Born 14 Apr 1655 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Taylor) Jenkins — married 28 Oct 1682 in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Died 11 Sep 1687 at age 32 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey

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JOB JENKINS, b. April 1655, son of John and Sarah (Cook) Jenkins of Sandwich, Mass., m. Sandwich 28 8th month [Oct.] 1682 HANNAH TAYLOR, b. 16 Sept. 1661; he d. Shrewsbury, N.J., 11 7th month [Sept.] 1687. Job and Hannah were Quakers and settled in New Jersey.[153] Hannah’s departure from Yarmouth is implied in language in her father’s 1693 will, which states, “I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Hanah Jenkins, twenty shillings, if she come for it, but not else.”^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Jillaine S. Smith, "The Two Richard Taylors of Yarmouth," NEHGS Register, volume 166 (October 2011), p 284, citing:
   • • Kardell and Lovell, Vital Records of Sandwich, 2:1250; 1:16; 2:1243 (birth)
     • Eleanor Cooley Rue, “Widow Joyce Wallen of Plymouth (1645) and Widow Joyce Lombard of Barnstable (1664): One and the Same?” in The American Genealogist 67 (1992):47–53 at 50 n.;
     • Eleanor Cooley Rue, “Susanna Cooke, Wife of John Jenkins of Sandwich, Mass.,” The American Genealogist 67 (1992):135.
     • John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, 5 vols. (New York: the author, 1903–32; repr. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970), 1:270, 271

• Sandwich, Mass., Records, The Genealogical Advertiser (Lucy Hall Greenlaw, Cambridge, Mass., 1900) Vol. 3, Page 74. His birth record shows his name as "Job Cooke Jukin".
• Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records, The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1912) Vol. 14, Page 166. His birth record shows his name as "Job Cooke Jukin".